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After the Strawberry
by
Kathryn Pope (Goodreads Author)
Lydia Poole wants to be a good person—the kind of person who does everything right and deserves to be loved. To accomplish this, she eats only one cup of Cheerios per day and lets her weight drop below ninety pounds. When Lydia’s sister introduces Jesse, a new friend and filmmaker, Lydia agrees to be the subject of his documentary.
Jesse’s camera follows Lydia as she’s hosp...more
Jesse’s camera follows Lydia as she’s hosp...more
Paperback, 520 pages
Published
March 28th 2009
by Seedpod Publishing
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This book makes the interior world of a young woman struggling with an eating disorder completely comprehensible. Like all good books, it carries the reader into a brand new universe and changes the way everything looks and feels afterward. Now I find myself seeing food through the protagonist's eyes. For her eating and not-eating have taken on symbolic meanings far beyond the physical. As the author's vivid and compassionate descriptions illuminate the protagonist's interior landscape, the read...more
After the Strawberry is very good: engaging, considered, surprising. Lydia, the book's young protagonist, has stopped eating. Kathryn Pope manages to bring the reader into Lydia's world while also keeping that world private for Lydia, a place the character assiduously created in her struggle to make sense of things. Pope never sentimentalizes Lydia or anorexia; doesn't over-explain or encroach. Pope lets Lydia, flawed and compelling, speak for herself.
Pope's writing is perceptive and spare. Eleg...more
Pope's writing is perceptive and spare. Eleg...more
I read "Snow Angel Perfect," an abbreviated and incomplete version of "After the Strawberry," a free download for my Kindle. The topic, anorexia, is important. However, the characters in the book were not likeable/appealing, and the main character enlisted no feelings from me. Her parents were "losers." The story did not capture me and the writing was stiff & stilted. It seemed that approximately 75% of the sentences were of the version: subject/predicate with a few modifiers thrown in. I re...more
I did not like the narration of this book at all. I found this book superficial it didn't get into many deep emotions. I don't think this book showed how much struggles there are when you have an eating disorder not just for the person who has the eating disorder but also the family.
Shit, the writing was terrible. She would literally write things like this: [shit, blah blah blah] Both sentences are examples of the writing style. I think the author was going for edgy, but the result was a painfully tedious read.
Kathryn Pope has written one great story about eating disorders. Great narration and sparingly vital prose. I highly recommend this book for anyone with any interest what an ED disorder might really be like. Highly inventive and sincere. It does not preach, nor taunt but more so explain and give some real insight into the surreal world of ED disorders. What really made this book stand out from others?
The portrayal of distorted thinking when it comes to food and having an ED disorder.
Finally, I...more
Personally, I hated the writing style. It was dry, boring and difficult to get into.
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Really good book, realistic. I don't like Jesse though. He swears too much. :(
At first, it was hard to keep up with the writing style of this book. You just have to get through the first 2 chapters and then it is easier to follow along. It's a really great book about the struggles of anorexia and also the struggles of being a documentary film maker (even though it focuses more on the anorexia). If you have a device that you can read ebooks on then I definitely recommend this book. I think it's a little weird that it's only available on ebook, but it's obvious with the dif...more
Poorly written.
I like this one.
Engrossing, enlightening read! Sheds enormous light on body issues, family dynamics and healing. Definitely worth a read!
Jesse was such a horrible character that the whole book was ruined for me. Ugh.
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Kathryn Pope teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles, where she is also director of The Bridge Program. Kathryn is author of the novel, After the Strawberry, as well as editor and co-founder of the independent digital press, Seedpod Publishing.
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